Customized ESXi Image for 4th Gen Intel NUC

Intel NUCs are small, silent, transportable and have a very low power consumption, making it a great server for your homelab. Unfortunately ESXi does not work out of the box on these small nice systems. This post describes how you can create a customized ESXi Image for a 4th Intel NUC in about 5 minutes.

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Noob here.... Need a hand with PowerCLI
Running PowerCLI returns errors for every command. Errors are in red. Each command given at #5 above fails.
What am I doing wrong?
All help appreciated.

PS C:\tmp> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot ESXi550-201412001.zip
The term 'Add-EsxSoftwareDepot' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:21
+ Add-EsxSoftwareDepot <<<